What is Education?

Education, if experienced in its pure form, is liberating, mind-expanding, essential. Often, schooling fails to do that for children. School for many is about uniformity, standardisation and synchronisation of behaviour. Schooling is the industrial process children are put through by the state to ensure they become compliant to authority, inculcated into the skills of reading, writing and numeracy, and systematically instructed (and then tested) about the world about them. They are batch processed by age, their behaviour is managed, their performance is scrutinised, and there is little time for self expression. One size has to fit all.

This is not education. It’s indoctrination.

In its purest form, education is about drawing out the learner from within themselves, giving them space to express themselves, explore and play, ask the ‘what if?’ questions and learn in their own style and at their own pace….A question all educators need to ask is: Are we keeping them inside themselves, or are we drawing them out from within?